ZIP Code 85541 · Star Valley, Arizona
Gila County · 15,295 counted · 3 districts
392 of the 15,295 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
Each percentage here is a share of the 15,295 homes counted in ZIP Code 85541, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.
3 districts are named for the early grades in ZIP Code 85541, Star Valley, Arizona and fewer for high school: at least one of them runs the early grades only, and the file stops naming it above them. Nothing new arrives, so nobody moves to a district that was not already here; the answer narrows instead. 15,295 homes were counted, and Payson Unified District holds the most of them. The largest share is high enough that one name is right for most of the homes counted and wrong for the other 392: 389 homes with Young Elementary and Tonto Basin Elementary; 3 homes in a district too small to name here.
Three districts share the early grades
3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 85541 at this level. Payson Unified is the largest with 14,903 homes; the smallest of them holds 91 homes. Young Elementary and Tonto Basin Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 15,295 homes counted in ZIP Code 85541, so one cell is 437 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds; the hatched cells at the end of a track are homes that no district of that kind is drawn to serve at all.
- Payson Unified District14,903 of 15,295 homes97%
- Young Elementary School District298 of 15,295 homes1.9%
- Tonto Basin Elementary District91 of 15,295 homes0.6%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Pine Strawberry Elementary District holds 3 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
One district covers high school
Payson Unified District is the only high school district named for ZIP Code 85541 at all, and it holds 14,903 of the 15,295 homes counted in the area.
- Payson Unified District14,903 of 15,295 homes97%
392 of the 15,295 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
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A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Payson Unified District NCES ID 0406070 pusd10.org (928) 474-2070
- Young Elementary School District NCES ID 0409540 youngschool.org (928) 462-3244
- Tonto Basin Elementary District NCES ID 0405760 tontobasinschool.org (928) 479-2277
A district runs the early grades only
Young Elementary and Tonto Basin Elementary run the early grades here and are not named for high school. Nobody moves to a district that was not already in the elementary answer: the list of names gets shorter, and the homes under the district that stops are picked up by one of the others or by no secondary district at all.
What one district name costs in 85541
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 85541 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 15,295 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 392 homes and for high school it is wrong for 392 homes. That is the whole difference between this page and a one-line answer: the same federal file, read to the end instead of to the first row.
The districts that reach into 85541
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Young Elementary touches 5 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 298 homes inside this one; Payson Unified touches 3 areas. Young Elementary is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Payson Unified is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares.
- Payson Unified District14,903 of 15,295 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- Young Elementary School District298 of 15,295 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Tonto Basin Elementary District91 of 15,295 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
Where Payson Unified goes from here
Payson Unified District runs pre-K through grade 12, and it shares 1 of the 3 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors, holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2, and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 14,903 homes over 525 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 85541 is 14,903 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Tonto Basin Elementary District, across 1 ZIP Code area.
How 85541 compares in Arizona
Across Arizona the boundary file names more than one district in 259 of the 409 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 63% of them, and 72 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 58 areas in Arizona name more than this ZIP Code does and 266 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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The lookup holds every ZIP Code area in the country with homes in it, including the ones with no page of their own. Opening it at 85541 recomputes the same 15,295 homes from the same snapshot, and typing five other digits answers for somewhere else. No server is asked for the answer: the whole index travels with the lookup page itself.
What to do next
Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.
A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 392 of the 15,295 homes counted in 85541 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.
District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.
What this site can hand you instead:
If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.
Where these numbers come from
The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.